Human Rights Hub
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom established a Human Rights Hub in Geneva. As a hub for the Foundation's human rights work, it strengthens respect for and compliance with human rights and promotes the rules-based international legal order. The hub connects human rights defenders and civil society organizations with each other and with UN organizations in Geneva.
News
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Universal Periodic Review Session 48: Slovenia
Slovenia underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review, a peer review of the human rights records of all 193 member states.
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Universal Periodic Review Session 48: Iran
Iran underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review, a peer review of the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States.
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The Glass Half-Full: Democracy and Human Rights for Gen Z in the USA
As part of a wider survey, this paper focuses on the results related to the United States of America (USA). What does American Gen Z think about human rights and democracy?
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Survey: Generation Z in Poland
Poland took the EU presidency on 1 January 2025.
The EU elections in June 2024 showed that more and more young voters are voting for right wing parties. Thus, the Hub set out to ask: How does Polish youth feel about democracy? What do they think about human rights? How do they judge their governments’ performance?
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Gen Z Survey: Committed to Human Rights, Worried about Democracy
What does Gen Z associate with the topic of human rights? Are they satisfied with the state of democracy? The transatlantic survey conducted by the Human Rights Hub of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Geneva on the occasion of Human Rights Day provides answers.
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A turning point for human rights?
The upcoming presidential elections in the USA are groundbreaking for liberal democracy and freedom, not only in the USA but also worldwide. The outcome of the election could even be a turning point for the future of human rights. A future President Kamala Harris would shape both the foreign and domestic policy agenda just as significantly as a potential President Donald Trump.
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Cambodian pro-democracy activists at the UN
Cambodia’s three decades of peace have not ushered the change that democrats had hoped for following the Paris Peace Agreement. The Human Rights Hub organized in Geneva a side-event with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Cambodia.